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Why I Dumped 51,963 Twitter Users Overnight
Social Media News Source: http://www.davidwalker.tv
Story Found By: DavidWalkerTV 814 Days ago
Category: Social Media
Twitter. Is it really of any use or is it just another fad which accomplishes nothing more than distracting you from what you need to be doing? I am still undecided but I want to determine whether Twitter can be used productively or not.
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from Jill 814 Days ago #
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Why would you follow that many to begin with?

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Desphinn from username1 removed by request 814 Days ago #
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To add to what Jill said. This is a very poor strategy. Now that you have unfollowed 51,963 you are going to have a very out of whack follower to followee ratio. In other words you will still have a large number of followers but you are following few. So you are sending one way signals into the Twittersphere. I could go on but I'll just leave it at that.

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Desphinn from NickWilsdon 813 Days ago #
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I don't get why this is news? It seems the same-old strategy everyone is following with Twitter. Auto-follow everyone to build up your numbers and then de-follow the lot to give some sense of false popularity. All under the guise of 'trimming the noise level down so I can *really* participate'. Then to add the icing to the cake, you blog/tweet the news far and wide. If you really participated in Twitter you wouldn't have needed to do this in the first place - the trimming/following would have come naturally and you'd already know who in your network was worth keeping.

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